Shattered Dreams ↔ Shut Up Heavens
Shatter the dream, and there is no faith to receive its blessing; it has been lost. When the heavens are as bronze and no blessings are in sight, there is no hope left for a dream. This is the vicious cycle that Gwen plunged her daughter when she picked fights with her. Every cycle of bickering sapped away a little more of KatieLyn's faith. Four days before the wedding, KatieLyn spiraled so low that she ran back home.
When I began this blog, I was on a quest to find out what happened. Why did KatieLyn run off in the middle of the night when it was so clearly God's will that she and Joe be married? I sense that I am nearing the end of my search, and the answers are as cruel as her run into the night was.
KatieLyn was disobedient to God's call. Her mom encouraged her in this disobedience in a manner that was extremely hard to oppose because her mom never heard God clearly. Gwen never heard God clearly because she never totally surrendered herself to fully listen. Satan, who wanted to destroy a godly marriage before it could begin, used KatieLyn's mother to steal her dream so that KatieLyn would destroy her own love by rejecting God's plan for her and fleeing in disobedience.
There is an ancient curse for disobedience which is recorded in Leviticus 26:
If you spurn my decrees, and if your soul abhors what I have ordained, so that you fail to carry them out, then I will do this to you: I will bring on you sudden terror, and I will sap your strength. I will set my face against you, and you will flee even when no one is pursuing you.
If after all this you will not listen to me, I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.
The curse continues on for another dozen verses, each round becoming more severe. But there is a way of escape. God does provide relief for those who repent:
But if they will confess their sins and that they have walked contrary unto me; then I will remember My covenant... I will not reject them, nor will I so abhor them as to destroy them.
The good news is that through Christ's death and resurrection, the body of Christ was redeemed from the curse of the law. KatieLyn is part of that body.
But redemption does not mean that there are no consequences. There are consequences. The Lord does not change. KatieLyn does not unilaterally get to make a "new" will of God simply because she changed her mind or got scared.
The loving God wants her to grow up. If she does not, then she will become a woman who craves instead of a woman who finds delight. Growing up means taking responsibility for her actions—specifically, her action of relying more on her mother than she did on the Lord. If she does not do this, then she will end up marrying a man that her mother chose for her, not one that God chose for her. It is a sorry state of affairs. After she ran away, she "confessed" that she did not think things through. This is her self-deceiving lie because she spent hundreds of hours thinking things through, often while talking to Joe. God did not plant the idea in her heart that His plan would not work. The notion that the marriage would not work came from another realm and was introduced to her mind by outside forces; the attack did not come from God.
After she ran away, she failed to confess that she had not honored God's plan for her life but had run out on Him as well.
The Lesson
I don't know how many more posts are left in this blog. I do know that KatieLyn was not obedient to the Heavenly vision for her life. I don't want to keep beating a dead horse.
I do know that running away and refusing to rise to address the issue did not honor the God who gives her the breath of life and controls her destiny!
And lest you think that is me being melodramatic, here is what it sounded like when Daniel said it to Belshazzar: You have proudly defied the Lord of heaven; but you didn't honor God, who holds in his power your very life and all your ways. (5:23)
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